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Laboratory Focus February/March 2019
APP REVIEW Calculate by QXMD
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qxmd. calculate Calculate is a next-generation medical calculator and decision support tool available to the medical community. Includes essential tools for all areas of medicine focusing on highlighting tools useful in clinical practice for diagnosis, treatment and/or determining prognosis.
PARTNERSHIPS
key to sustaining innovation Universities and small biotech companies are a significant source of innovation in the laboratory sciences sector. Often these small companies and academic laboratories don’t have the infrastructure to see clinical trials through to the development of a product. Biotech companies and universities are coming up with more innovative ways to keep their studies going, including obtaining government funding, partnering with other organizations and creating unique ways to engage with clinical trial participants. In 2018, Toronto-based C-Lab launched with the goal of improving access to resources for small companies and universities in the laboratory sciences sector. The start of 2019 saw the largest global partnership for a pre-clinical asset based on Canadian research: Triphase Accelerator and Celegene Corporation. This new partnership will be working on a pre-clinical version of a drug to target the WDR5 protein in the treatment of leukemia and other blood disorders. And to better partner with subjects in clinical trials to increase the chance of a trial going to completion, doc.ai, a smartphone app developer, has created an app that uses artificial intelligence to mine health data to recruit subjects for clinical trials, empowering them to improve their health by sharing their personal healthcare information.
LabGear Medical Lab Test Reference
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com. smartddx.labgearessentials Includes peer reviewed content for all health care professionals including students, physicians and nurses. A comprehensive library of medical tests with different diagnosis and related systems. Chemistry panels include basic metabolic, comprehensive metabolic, complete blood picture, arterial blood gases, liver panel, lipid profile, coagulation profile, diabetic profile and urinalysis.
Docty Medical & Laboratory Reference Values https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com. diogocapela.docty
This free app includes a clean design and promises no ads. Docty is a pocket app that provides medical reference laboratory range values for doctors, students and healthcare workers. Includes range values for vital signs, hematology, coagulation, blood gases, electrolytes, lipids and gastrointestinal.
